Sheila Glaser

Eduardo Halfon’s narrator tries to discover the truth about his grandfather’s past.

With “Woman of the Ashes,” the first novel of a trilogy, Mia Couto conjures his country’s colonial past with sensitivity and imagination.

Heartbreak, exile, lethal violence and the gold rush in the Amazon are some of the themes explored in three newly translated works.

“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.

In his latest book, the French author celebrated for his deeply personal accounts of tragic events embraces meditation as a means of learning to write “without fabrication.” But telling the truth is complicated.